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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Gaudreau was a very different situation. Burning a year of ELC was the only thing that made signing with the Flames a better option than playing another year at College and signing as a UFA with the team of his choice August 2015.
Bennett has no such leverage.
Name a UFA who decided to stay with a club and because they treated him well as 18 year old and gave him a chance.
There are none. unless you count the Oiler kids that signed the 6x6 deals because the Oilers treated them well
The Jets treated Burmistrov and Kane as future franchise players when they were 18.....
The Flames could easily justify that Raymond has been just as nominally effective against the Ducks and that Bennett is physically overmatched. if Ferland is in the line-up the logical guys sitting are Wolf, Raymond or Bennett. Wolf held his own against the Duck big good guys..... he earned a 2nd game.
Bennett was a -2 being on the ice for both the Ducks goals (not the empty netter).
If it was the regular season almost certainly Bennett would be sitting.
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1. Bennett won't be a UFA any sooner because of this. He will get a bridge contract as an RFA one year sooner. UFAs are irrelevant to this conversation.
2. Whether or not Bennett has been better against the Ducks than Raymond (maybe/matbe not) or Wolf (don't make me laugh) and would sit if Ferland was healthy is also irrelevant because Ferland is not healthy. Plus, Ferland was healthy at the start of game one and Bennett wasn't sitting.
3. And are you really relying on a one game +/- as a stat to support a player playing in a game or not? The same player that's scored the only Flames goal in the series?